The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 4

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4 ‘The Lutheran Pioneer.
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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. | Place of an academy which was destroyed by |that during our ecclesiastical year that pres-
fire two years ago. The third institution is an | bytery, composed of converted Sioux Indians,
Soe en eee aia ere Pee to aes one ete aw
» tor the education of youth of the|other presbytery in the synod, and during the
Director of this Institution is the Rev. Tobias | presbyteries of the synod. y
“Belair
terest in these poor people. The number of Beers eatin eke hes Colarad
oA * : be used to good advantage in our glorious mis-
be added. Wittenberg is located in the midst] 550. work.
of a dense forest, with not a few stumps in its
streets, and though quite unpretentious in its) — 2#= Church Missionary Society of Eng-
outward surroundings, it would seem destined land, largely supported by the evangelical sec-
to become as “a city set on a hill,”’ giving forth | tion of the Anglican Church, had an income
the light of a pure Christian charity both near | during the year. Just closed, of over $1,170,000
and far. A gentleman traveling in Wisconsin —the largest income of any missionary society
remarked to us that it was the only place on |20W in existence. Our Colored Mission Board
the line of the railroad which seemed to him to |¢®4 bardly think of such a large income. It
he devoted wholly to God, and all the business would be perfectly satisfied with a somewhat
of which was connected with the exercise of smaller sum in the coming year.
Christian mercy. — WE close our window, wishing all our
—Tae mission work of the Lutheran Church | "eaders
among the Laplanders in the northern portions
of Sweden and Norway is carried on with in-
creasing interest and promise. The new selec-
tion of the Epistles and Gospels for the Church
Year has recently been printed in the Lapp
language. The faithful missionaries among
these nomadic people travel with them from
place to place during certain: portions of the
year, and share with them the discomforts of
their rude nomadic life.

—TaE missionaries sent from Leipsic to the
Tamils, in South India, recently established
two new stations.- The formation of one of
them is due to the exertions of the widow and
the daughter of an English officer. The Leipsic
missionaries baptized 540 last year, the present
total number of Tamil Lutherans is 14,000,
with 149 schools and 5653 pupils.

—TxE Lutheran missionaries sent from Her-

mansburg to the Zulu and Basseto, in South
Africa, baptized 1483 heathen last year. The
total number of: these South African native
Lutherans is 10,800.
_ —In fifty years the communicants in the
missions of the London Missionary Society have
increased from 6,615 to 70,561, and the native
preachers from 451 to 7,168.

—Nearly a thousand millions of the human
race, says the Christian Advocate, are yet with- |
out the Gospel: vast districts are wholly un-
occupied. So few are the laborers that, if

— By the blessing of God we, with this num-
ber, begin the tenth volume of the LurHERAN
ProneER. The work has been done for the
Master, and since it pleases Him to bless the
work which is done in weakness, we thankfully
go forward, hoping that our little PronEER will
again be welcomed by thousands of old and new
friends in the coming year.

—In Brobst’s Almanac for 1888 the statistics
of the ‘‘Lutheran church in America’”’ sum up
as follows. Synodical Conference: ministers
1,171; congregations 1,638; communicants 322,-
399. General Council: ministers 1,088; congre-
gations 2,025; communicants289,827. General
Synod: ministers 910; congregations 1,373;
communicants 140,267. United Synod of the
South: ministers 182; congregations 378; com-
municants 32,790. Independent: ministers 851;

_ congregations 1,922; communicants 209,122.
Total: ministers 4,202; congregations 7,336;
communicants 994,405.

—Anmone the many gods of the Chinese is
the kitchen-god. They put up a new one every
New Year's day, when they burn the old one.
They think that this god takes care of every-
thing in the kitchen; and if the fire don’t burn,
or the bread is baking too fast, or there is any
trouble, they scold and beat the god. When

~ he is burned, they think he goes to heaven, and
tells all that has happened in their kitchen for
@ year: so sometimes they daub molasses on his
mouth before they burn him, and they think
then he can’t tell. What ideas these heathen

" people have of God and of Providence!

—Two hundred and fifty years ago two ships

were crossing the mighty Atlantic, carrying a

fF company of fifty Lutherans from Sweden and

= - inland to the banks of the Delaware river.

These men were-sent by the pious ruler of

Sweden to found a Lutheran colony in the New

World, to till the soil for their daily bread, and

to preach the gospel to the Indians by good

words and good works. They brought along

- their pastor, the Reverend Reorus Torkillus,

who has the honor of having been the first

~? ’ minister of the Lutheran Church in America.

E _ Our Church was therefore planted on American

soil 250 years ago, only 18 years after the settle-

ment of the Puritans on Plymouth Rock, and

100 years before the beginning of Methodism in
: -England and America. Liepiis

—TaE little village of Wittenberg, Shawano

Co., Wis., says the Workman, is remarkable for

the number of its church-charities. The oldest

A Harry New Year.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny. ]

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 7%
o’clock Wednesday evening.

Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 74 Sunday evening and at 7)4 Thuraday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 7}4 Tuesday evening.
N. J. Baxxe, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
CAROLLTON.
Divine services at 10}, o’clock Sunday morning and 7}
o’clock Sunday evening.

Sunday School at 9 o’clock.
Ava. Buneporr, MissionaRY. *

ou semte ne mese avecese

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service Sunday evening at 734 o’clock.
Sunday School from 10—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENDACH, Missionary.

- TERMS:

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living soul before the century closes.

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—SoMETHING must he done, says the Interior,
to hold in check those Christianized Indians in